THEME MEETING ON 2D NANOSTRUCTURES: GRAPHENE AND BEYOND July 29-30, 2012 Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM July 29 th, 2012 Sunday (MRC Auditorium) 08:30-17:00 Registration Desk (MRC) 08:55-09:00 Welcome Address A.K. Singh, G.P. Das INAUGURAL PLENARY SESSION: Chair: S.B. Krupanidhi 09:00-09:45 PT-1 Graphene, graphene mimics and some of their fascinating properties C.N.R. Rao Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 09:45-10:30 PT-2 Probing Graphene and MoS 2 transistors by Raman Spectroscopy A. K. Sood Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 10:30-11:00 COFFEE-BREAK SESSION-1: Chair: Swapan Ghosh 11:00-11:25 Inv-1 A Pariser-Parr-Pople Model Hamiltonian based approach to the electronic structure and optical properties of graphene nanostructures G. Kondayya and Alok Shukla Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 11:25-11:50 Inv -2 Phonon-limited transport coefficients in extrinsic Graphene E. Muñoz Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avda. Brasil 2950, Valparaíso, Chile
11:50-12:15 Inv-3 Junctions of topological insulators K. Sengupta Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India 12:15-12:40 Inv-4 Jahn-Teller Effect and Magnetism in Graphene with a Substitutional Vacancy B.R.K. Nanda Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India 12:40-13:05 Inv-5 Strain Engineered Graphene: Current Trends and Prospects Vitor M. Pereira Graphene Research Centre and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 13:05-14:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:00-16:00 POSTER SESSION+COFFEE BREAK SESSION-2: Chair: Umesh V. Waghmare 16:00-16:25 Inv-6 Graphitic-like Structures of Single and Multi-layers of Silicon Carbide C.S. Jayanthi, S.Y. Wu and M. Yu Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA 16:25-16:50 Inv-7 Magnetic Impurities in GNRS D.G. Kanhere Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India 16:50-17:15 Inv-8 Polymer Dielectrics By Design R. Ramprasad University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA 17:15-17:40 Inv-9 Graphene and graphitic analogoues among binary semiconductors Priya Mahadevan Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India
17:40-18:05 Inv-10 Defects and ad-atoms on hybrid h-bnc sheet Prasenjit Sen, Pooja Srivastava and M. Deshpande Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad, India 18:05-18:30 Inv-11 Ammonia reaction mechanism over CNT an ab initio study Abhijit Chatterjee and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Material Science, Accelrys, Kasumigaseki 1-3-7, Tokyo, Japan SPONSORS TALKS: Chair: Arun M. Umarji 18:30-19:00 Sp-1 Presentation from Dell/Intel 19:00 BANQUET (Hotel Sheraton, Bangalore) July 30 th, 2012 Monday (MRC Auditorium) PLENARY SESSION: Chair: G. P. Das 08:25-9:10 PT-3 Ab initio calculation to predict nanostructured materials Yoshiyuki Kawazoe New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan 09:10-09:15 BREAK SESSION-3: Chair: Kwang-Ryeol Lee 09:15-09:40 Inv-12 Exploring Applications of Graphene in Spintronics, Hydrogen Storage, Catalysis and Gas Sensing by First-principles Calculations Minggang Zeng, Lei Shen, Miao Zhou, Xian Qin, Yunhao Lu, Chun Zhang, Qingyuan Meng and Yuan Ping Feng Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
09:40-10:05 Inv-13 From semiconducting graphene to graphitic phase in layers of compound Semiconductors Vijay Kumar Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, Haryana, India 10:05-10:30 Inv-14 Electronic properties of Carbon and Boron Nitride based two-dimensional Nanomaterials: A first-principles study Sugata Mukherjee S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK SESSION-4: Chair: Vijay Kumar 11:00-11:25 Inv-15 Exploring Hydrogen Storage Systems through Advanced Computational Materials Science Rajeev Ahuja Condensed Matter Theory Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden 11:25-11:50 Inv-16 Adsorption of clusters and organic molecules on graphene and 2D boron nitride Biplab Sanyal Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden 11:50-12:15 Inv-17 Transport, magnetic and optical Properties of Decorated Graphenes and Graphene Nanoribbons Swapan K. Pati Theoretical Sciences Unit and New Chemistry Unit JNCASR, Bangalore, India 12:15-12:40 Inv-18 Ab-intio Study of Structural Stability of Ordered Long Periodic Structures In Al-rich Ti-Al System A. Arya, P.S. Ghosh and G.K. Dey Materials Science Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
12:40-13:05 Inv-19 Coupling between quantum Hall state and electromechanics in suspended graphene resonator Mandar M. Deshmukh, Vibhor Singh, Bushra Irfan, Ganesh Subramanian, Hari S. Solanki, Shamashis Sengupta, Sudipta Dubey, Anil Kumar and S. Ramakrishnan DCMP and MS, TIFR, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai, India 13:05-14:00 LUNCH BREAK SESSION-5: Chair: Y. P. Feng 14:00-14:25 Inv-20 The mechanism of graphene CVD growth Feng Ding Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong 14:25-14:50 Inv-21 Graphene Sheets into Fullerene Molecules: Insights from DFTB based QM/MD Simulation K.R.S. Chandrakumar Theoretical Chemistry Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India 14:50-15:15 Inv-22 Topological Defect Activation & Magnetism in Carbon Nanostructures Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 15:15-15:40 Inv-23 Tuning the Shape and Reactivity of Small Gold Clusters by Substrate Doping Shobhana Narasimhan, Nisha Mammen and Stefano de Gironcoli Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore, India 15:40-16:00 COFFEE-BREAK
SESSION-6: Chair: Chiranjib Majumder 16:00-16:25 Inv-24 First Principles Study of Strained 2-D Nanomaterials Gyubong Kim, Mina Park, Kwang-Ryeol Lee and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Computational Science Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea 16:25-16:50 Inv-25 Band gap engineering and other theoretical studies in graphene K. Iyakutti, V. J. Surya and Y. Kawazoe Department of Physics, Noorul Islam University, Kumaracoil, Kanyakumari, TamilNadu, India 16:50-17:15 Inv-26 Cu-based spin-1/2 spin-gap tetramer and trimer system: complex low-dimensional magnetic systems Debjani Karmakar Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India 17:15-17:40 Inv-27 Novel Nanostructures: Insights from first principles electronic structure Calculations Indra Dasgupta Department of Solid State Physics & Center for Advanced Materials Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India 17:40-18:05 Inv-28 Ab-initio calculations of structural, electronic and magnetic properties of Mn x Te y Clusters Anjali Kshirsagar and H. A. Shafiei Gol Centre for Modeling and Simulation and Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India 18:05-19:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS U.V. Waghmare, Y. Kawazoe 19:00 SPECIAL DINNER (Centenary Visitors House Dining Hall)